Platform interviews

Evaluate platform engineer candidates by what they do

Assess platform skills with real infrastructure incidents.

Deadnodes provides platform engineering interview tasks that mirror production incidents.

Infrastructure incidents
Live terminals
Timed recovery
Scoring

Theory interviews

No live infra
No incident pressure
Low signal
Hard to compare

Platform tasks

Live incidents
Standardized scoring
Consistent scenarios
High signal

Give a real task during the interview

Recover infrastructure services and dependencies.

Infra failures
Service recovery
Root-cause analysis

Watch the candidate reasoning

Issue links, monitor runs, capture notes.

Interview links
Run history
Notes

Use AI to draft the review

Built for platform and infra hiring.

Platform
Infra
SRE

Deadnodes: DevOps practice labs and technical interview platform

Deadnodes helps engineers and hiring teams practice and assess real DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering skills in live browser environments.

Hands-on troubleshooting labs for Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres, networking, and CI/CD.
Live terminal scenarios with timed runs, scoring, and run history.
Technical interview meetings with secure candidate links and a task picker.
Code Playbook exercises for live coding, pseudocode, debugging, and reasoning.
AI-assisted reports that summarize candidate actions, risks, and next questions.

Key pages: /en/for-ai-agents, /en/interview, /en/tasks/browse, /en/pricing.